Ubuntu and Wireless with BCM4306

[albertlv]

hello people... i'm trying to install ubuntu in a friends computer... finally i got it, but as we all know the wireless card is not working... if any of you have any idea how to install it please help me so i can help him....

here is what he has... he has a Gateway Laptop M520 that is using a Broadcom BCM4306 wireless card. please help

[jameslangcn]

Please take a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31859

[albertlv]

dude i tried this but honestly it didn't work... we are newbies here and we've been working here for a while trying to set this up but it just didn't work... if anyone could give me very DETAILED information and steps that would be very helpful... please, help us set up this thing.... thank you very mucho...

[beagle2]

Huge amount of info on this here and elsewhere but once again - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

[Chitty]

I went to the website and follow the instructions there and I couldn't get it installed... here is what i got:

sergio@sergio-laptop:~$ su
Password:
root@sergio-laptop:/home/sergio# cd WirelessDrivers
root@sergio-laptop:/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers# ls
ndiswrapper-1.28 ndiswrapper-1.28.tar.gz
root@sergio-laptop:/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers# cd ndiswrapper-1.28
root@sergio-laptop:/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make -C utils
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28/utils'
gcc -g -Wall -I../driver -o loadndisdriver loadndisdriver.c
loadndisdriver.c:15:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:16:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:17:19: error: errno.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:18:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:19:20: error: libgen.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:21:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:23:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:24:23: error: sys/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:25:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:26:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:27:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/limits.h:11,
from loadndisdriver.c:28:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:29:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:30:20: error: dirent.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:31:20: error: syslog.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:34:25: error: linux/major.h: No such file or directory
loadndisdriver.c:35:25: error: linux/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from loadndisdriver.c:37:
../driver/loader.h:24: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘size_t’
loadndisdriver.c: In function ‘load_file’:
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: ‘size_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: for each function it appears in.)
loadndisdriver.c:67: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘size’
loadndisdriver.c:68: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
loadndisdriver.c:69: error: storage size of ‘statbuf’ isn’t known
loadndisdriver.c:71: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘basename’
loadndisdriver.c:71: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
loadndisdriver.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘open’
loadndisdriver.c:73: error: ‘O_RDONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function)
.
.
.
loadndisdriver.c:540: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘atof’
loadndisdriver.c:547: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcmp’
loadndisdriver.c:554: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘sscanf’
loadndisdriver.c:588: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘closelog’
make[1]: *** [loadndisdriver] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28/utils'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@sergio-laptop:/home/sergio/WirelessDrivers/ndiswrapper-1.28#

What should I do?

[EngineeringNerd]

Can't you install ndiswrapper from the distro disk? That is certainly the easiest way to do it.